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William Shakespeare

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By William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals
with such themes as love, time, death,
immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but
also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of
sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an
unattainable idealized female beloved.
Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to both
male and female lovers: the androgynous

"young man" and the alluring yet dangerously sexual "dark lady."
(Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Read by Elizabeth Klett; total running time: 02:28:50.

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